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critical semantic components. Out of necessity, these repositories are usually
home-grown, because as of this writing, the traditional repository tools don’t
store business rules or any type of business metadata very well, beyond that
found in Entity/Relationship (ER) models. (Check our Web site for product
updates: www.mkp.com/businessmetadata.) We discuss these two semantic
elements elsewhere in the book: under the heading Definitions in Chapter 4
and the heading Business Rules in its own chapter, Chapter 13.
The present chapter explores semantics in several areas:
How do we express semantics so that it can be communicated?
How is the natur ...